Though we are approaching the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks , we have yet to unearth the entire network of individuals who played a role in the devastation. The arrest of Luai Sakra is further evidence of the fact that some part of the network remains at large, possibly intact and active. Sakra?s capture also shows the futility of imagining the individuals in this network as obvious fundamentalists, with beards, devoutly veiled wives, and punctual prayer routines. The article relates how Sakra brags of liking wine and whiskey and not ever praying.

Sakra seems, according to this article, to be a braggart, boasting of helping the September 11 hijackers, of knowing Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi , and of having known of the London bombings (TRC Full Coverage). Apparently, it is not just empty boasting, as he has been able to provide corroborating details, according to Der Spiegel. If his claims are found to be true, then it demonstrates that there is at least one human connection between the network behind September 11 and those behind the London bombings. Though the perpetrators were local, ?homegrown? terrorists, connections with al-Qaeda -linked terror networks are suspected. Sakra may provide some of the evidence to confirm those suspicions.